At the end of the 6th century BC, Hermon was asking which God he should pray to in order to obtain useful children from his wife
A large part of the unique authentic plates of Dodoni – over 2,500 lead plates on which the faithful wrote their questions to – are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina.
In fact, in September 2021, the questions of the Dodoni oracles were included in UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” list
What concerned the ancient Greeks
The anxieties of the oracle pilgrim 2,000 years ago were more or less the same as those of modern man – personal, family, professional and health issues
Believers wrote their question to the divine couple of Zeus and Dione on one side of the lead sheet and then folded or rolled it up.
The size of the letters does not exceed 1-1.5 millimeters, while the questions are written in a variety of alphabets and dialects, as people arrived at Manteio from all regions, from Syracuse and Taranto, Boeotia, Athens, Corinth.
Public questions are relatively few, are mainly asked by cities and usually concern political or religious issues.
Most private questions are asked mainly by men, rarely by women or couples, and concern issues that concern people at all times and cause stress, such as family, health, professional, travel, property issues.
For example, in the questions regarding the female gender the questioner asks to know whether he will benefit by marriage or whether he will get the required dowry.
The restoration of daughters was a father’s primary concern.
Questions are also common, that the person concerned wonders if he will have children from a certain woman or to which god he should pray in order to have them.
One of the oldest questions of the Oracle, written in the Corinthian alphabet, which is placed at the end of the 6th century BC, is the one that asks Hermon. He asks which God he should pray to in order to obtain useful children from his wife, Cretaia.
On another lead tablet, during the 4th-3rd century BC, the inhabitants of Dodoni ask if the deep winter is due to some wrongdoing.
In the circle of professional occupations, activities such as farming, fishing, animal husbandry, trade, as well as changing occupations are described.
Source: Skai
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